Prior to the consecration of Stuvyer, the Institute relied on McKenna and his associate, the Sedevacantist bishop Oliver Oravec, for ordinations. Stuyver was consecrated to relieve them of these duties.

Sedevacantists in Western Europe protested strongly against the proposed consecration and offered prayers against it; the opposition was directed against the contrary ideology of Sedeprivationism that McKenna, Ricossa and Stuyver, etc., espouse.